Nursing's seat at the research roundtable

• Authors: Bevin Cohen, Mt. Sinai Hospital; Mary E. Cooley, Dana Farber Cancer Institute; Tamryn F. Gray, Dana Farber Cancer Institute; Lauri Linder, University of Utah; Janice Phillips, Rush University; Angela Starkweather, University of Connecticut; Katherine Yeager, Emory University; Noah Zanville, Miami Cancer Institute
• Journal Title: LANCET
• Volume: Volume 396, Number 10260
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC | 2020-10-31, Pages 1397-1398
• Type of Work: Article | Final Publisher PDF
• Publisher DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32143-7
• Subjects: Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery; Health Sciences, Nursing; Health Sciences, Health Care Management
• Keywords: Science & Technology; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; Medicine, General & Internal; General & Internal Medicine

Abstract

WHO's Year of the Nurse and Midwife 2020 began as an unforeseen global health-care crisis quietly gained traction. With no disease-specific prevention, treatment or cure for COVID-19, public health measures and supportive care—interventions developed and delivered largely by nurses—were the first and remain the only unequivocally effective defences against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.